Senior Engineering Manager, Web Apps

What You’ll Do

• Lead day-to-day engineering execution in a hands-on management capacity, ensuring priorities, ownership, timelines, risks, dependencies, and quality expectations are clear.
• Manage Web Services engineers and contractors, including coaching, feedback, prioritization, performance support, and team development.
• Manage team budget and resource planning, including contractor, vendor, tooling, service, operational expense, and headcount planning inputs.
• Translate product direction, technical priorities, and organizational needs into coordinated engineering plans.
• Establish team processes, workflows, planning practices, and operating rhythms that improve clarity, accountability, quality, and predictability.
• Maintain enough product and architectural context to evaluate tradeoffs, identify risks, and manage engineering work credibly.
• Improve engineering practices related to code review, testing, documentation, release readiness, observability, technical debt, and operational readiness.
• Cookordination launch and operational readiness across technical and cross-functional partners.
• Communicate progress, priorities, risks, and decisions clearly to stakeholders while fostering an engineering culture grounded in accountability, inclusion, technical quality, open-source values, and continuous improvement.

What You Bring

• 15+ years of overall industry experience, with at least 10 years of engineering leadership experience in software product, hosted services, SaaS, cloud-based applications, communications platforms, or similarly complex technical environments.
• 5+ years of people management experience in an engineering environment, including coaching, feedback, prioritization, performance support, career development, and team development.
• Experience managing senior technical teams, team budget and resource planning, and partnerships with directors, senior ICs, product stakeholders, infrastructure/SRE teams, contractors, external partners, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience translating technical, product, or organizational direction into clear execution plans, ownership models, delivery practices, operating rhythms, and measurable outcomes.
• Technical depth sufficient to understand engineering tradeoffs, release risks, codebase quality, architectural implications, service reliability, security/privacy considerations, operational readiness, and engineering practices such as code review, testing, documentation, observability, CI/CD, incident learning, and technical debt management.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to create clarity, accountability, and follow-through in small, scaling, ambiguous, or evolving environments.
• Demonstrated ability to thoughtfully evaluate and integrate AI-enabled tools into engineering management practices, team workflows, decision-making, and productivity improvements, while setting clear expectations around accuracy, privacy, security, and responsible use.

Success Criteria

• Within the first year, success means the Web Applications team is operating with clear ownership, strong delivery predictability, and effective coordination across employees, contractors, contributors, and cross-functional partners.
• Planning, reviews, launches, and ongoing operations should be disciplined and reliable, supported by engineering practices that help the hosted subscription portfolio mature with quality, privacy, reliability, and user trust.

Work Environment

• You’ll work with our passionate staff and open-source community members from all over the globe to support the mission and objectives of MZLA.
• This is a remote, full-time position.
• Strong communication and documentation skills are essential for effective collaboration across time zones and disciplines.

Compensation & Benefits

• We benchmark our base salaries to local markets and target the 60th percentile of the peer market.
• The salary ranges for this role are: US: $175,000 - $200,000 USD.
• We may consider candidates with strong skills but less than the required experience.
• Candidates who submit generic or unoriginal AI-generated responses may be disqualified from further consideration.

How To Apply

• Please apply directly through our career page.
• We carefully review every cover letter and screening question, so take the time to answer each fully.
• We value authentic, thoughtful responses that reflect your own experience and perspective.